Unfortunately, Joseph Adler has had to cancel his presentation due to a family emergency.

We are very fortunate to have in his place Onur Sakarya, Ph.D., a Senior Scientist at Life Technologies speaking on RNA-Seq techniques utilizing next generation technologies. Life Technologies is the developer of the SOLiD next generation sequencing system and QDot nanocrystal technology which is driving the development of Single Molecule Real-Time sequencing at Life Technologies.
Dr. Sakarya completed his graduate studies in computer science and molecular biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an alumnus of the Kosik Lab where his research focused on sequence alignment, comparative genomics and the evolution of scaffolding systems. He is currently researching and developing tools and software for high throughput, short read RNA sequencing.
This will be our second forum in a row dealing with the extremely fast growing and exciting field of Next Generation Sequencing. This will be a great opportunity to learn more about the field. Of course, this will also be the perfect opportunity for anyone interested in Bioinformatics in the Bay Area to meet and network with like minded folks.

Agenda:

7:00-7:10 - Networking
7:10-7:20 - Introduction and Sponsor - Life Technologies
7:20-7:50 - Onur Sakarya presents "Exploring the RNA World with Next Generation Sequencing"
7:50-8:15 - Break/Discussion
8:15-9:00 - Lightning talks

We will also have several lightning talks at this forum.

Special thanks go out to our sponsor, Life Technologies who are providing the facilities, snacks and drinks.

Directions:

Life Technologies
850 Lincoln Centre Drive.
Foster City, CA 94404

Building 200 room 2A

Because Life Technologies has a security policy, everyone MUST sign-in at the security office. Here are the instructions:
1. Accept YES on our website if you plan to attend.
2. Check into the 800 building at Life Technologies (which is located at the end of Lincoln Centre Drive)
3. You will need an identification card to sign-in.
4. Next, walk to Building 200 (head back towards the bay), go to room 2A.
5. Someone should be there to open the door for you. (If not, wait a few minutes)

Blogging is allowed at this event. Please see the BayBIFX blog policy for more details.

Thanks

Hope to see you all there!